LONG-term outcome after admission to the intensive care unit (LONG)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
LONG-term outcome after admission to the intensive care unit (LONG)
IRAS ID
264583
Contact name
Thomas Clark
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
We wish to investigate the long term survival of critically ill patients admitted to Intensive care units (ICU) in comparison to the background United Kingdom population. Current information is either outdated, from different health care systems or only considers shorter periods of time. We do not have a clear idea of whether people who survive critical illness have different life expectancies to the background population. There is the suspicion that people who survive critical illness have long term health consequences that may shorten life expectancy.
We would like to retrospectively collect data on the first 50-100 patients admitted to ICU from the 1st April 2012 in the six trusts within our trainee research network (total of 300-600 patients). This data will be collected at each local site by the clinical team, anonymised and centralised to the network research team. This data will include only routinely collected items including general demographics (age, sex etc.), diagnosis information, past medical history, intensive care treatment information (from our Intensive Care Network Audit and Research Centre database), blood test results and dates of death. The central research team will see no patient identifiable information.
This data will be used to build long-term survival curves that will be compared against Office of National Statistics population data. We will also analyse the data to see what factors may or may not predict shorter versus longer-term survival and look at the recovery of kidney function in patients who have kidney failure whilst admitted to ICU.
This study will better inform us. The data may help in shared decision making discussions with future patients and their next-of-kin. It will tell us what is happening to our patients and help us understand their outcomes.
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